{"id":162092,"date":"2016-04-25T08:59:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T06:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=162092"},"modified":"2016-04-25T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T07:00:18","slug":"dstv-boxoffice-access-fee-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/162092-dstv-boxoffice-access-fee-fight.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv BoxOffice access fee fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent DStv BoxOffice advertisement resulted in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asasa.org.za\/rulings\/multichoice_south_africa_box_office-a_els-2016-3015f\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (ASA) complaint<\/strong><\/a>, because an &#8220;access fee\u201d is payable over and above the movie rental fee.<\/p>\n<p>The complainant argued the advertisement, which promoted the DStv BoxOffice movie rental service, was misleading because there was \u201cno mention of the fact that an access fee is payable over and above the movie rental fee\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice responded, stating that a disclaimer is displayed towards the end of the advertisement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BoxOffice available in selected countries and on selected packages on PVR \/ Explora. Active Access fee required. Movies available for 24 hours after rental.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>MultiChoice conceded that the time the disclaimer remained on screen may not have been sufficient for the complainant to read, which was an error in the production of the commercial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe commercial has been discontinued and the error will be rectified in future advertisements,\u201d said MultiChoice.<\/p>\n<p>The ASA said MultiChoice\u2019s undertaking to discontinue the commercial addressed the complainant\u2019s immediate concerns, and a ruling was not required.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on DStv<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/161200-dstv-now-gets-22-new-channels.html\"><strong>DStv Now gets 21 new channels<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/160124-dstv-price-hikes-kick-in.html\">DStv price hikes kick in<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/159658-why-dstv-has-repeats.html\">Why DStv has repeats<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A DStv BoxOffice advertisement has come under fire because an &#8220;access fee\u201d is payable over and above the movie rental fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":131786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[351,85,1645,35,475],"class_list":["post-162092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-asa","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-boxoffice","tag-headline","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162098,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162092\/revisions\/162098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}